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PUBG: Battlegrounds gets first new map since going free-to-play todayPlus a new Workshop to let you craft your own items
Plus a new Workshop to let you craft your own items
Chicken-loving battle royalePUBG: Battlegroundsis adding its ninth map today, the near-future and ecologically compromised Deston. There’s plenty of fancy features in the new map such as ascenders to zip you up the side of its skyscrapers, and areas that only drones can get to. Sit back on your favourite airboat and glimpse the only slightly terrifying fate that awaits us all in the trailer below.
DESTON Gameplay Trailer | PUBGGet that chicken dinner to go and check out the new PUBG: Battlegrounds map, Deston.Watch on YouTube
DESTON Gameplay Trailer | PUBG
Deston is an 8km x 8km map that features a fair few different biomes, most of which are watery. There’s a flooded city called Ripton with massive skyscrapers to scale using the new ascender ropes, along with grim swamps, coastal regions with islands, and a mountainous interior. Other points of interest to explore include a concert ground that’s staging the Chickysound festival, a hydroelectric dam, and a paintball arena. Some areas of Deston are only accessible using drones. You might want to consider piloting the new airboats around those swamps too, or utilising the cell towers that let you catapult off the top of them so you can parachute away.
The pioneering battle royalewent free-to-playonSteamat the start of this year, replacing the earlierPUBG Lite. Free players aren’t able to play Ranked mode or create custom matches, however, and they only get half the XP towards persistent progression, too.
You can read more about Deston and the other new things coming to the game in the full patch notes for update 18.2here.
